Soul Nebula IC1848 ROI - WIP

[Carole]

Not done any imaging since Cairds - been a bit in the doldrums regarding imaging from home due to LP and hadn't even bothered to unpack the kit since my last astrocamp.

Anyway, finally got myself together as there was clear sky forecast for a few hours last night athough naturally it didn't last as long as predicted, with intermittent unpredicted clouds as well.

Only managed 1 1/2 hours of Ha so this is definitely a work in progress.
This is a Region of Interest in the Soul nebula and am planning to add Oiii and Sii and a lot more Ha, but thought I'd give Ivor something to post up next meeting if I don't manage to get any more data.

9 x 600secs Ha Atik314
Skywatcher ED120

[RobertM]

A good start Carole, it needs a lot of exposure to get all the swirling dust around the central pillar.

Robert
PS. Know how you feel about the weather, am in almost the same boat !

[Fay]

Well good start Carole. I  did get outside last night but my Hitec astro hub would not work. so bit of a setback, as you say not clear for as long as they said.

this has reminded me to test it with another cable

[Carole]

Thanks Fay and Robert.

Know how you feel about the weather

It's not just the weather Robert, I feel I have got to the point where I feel there is not a lot of point in doing much from Home any more, not many targets I haven't already done, and those that I haven't probably need a dark site anyway.
I only want to do repeats if I am going to improve on what I have done before.  No chance of doing that in Bromley. Even narrowband I can only do the brightest objects, anything faint is rubbish from home.

my Hitec astro hub would not work

That's a bummer Fay, I seem to recall you having problems with it before.  Have you no back up method?

Carole

[Fay]

Got it going again tonight indoors

[Carole]

Typical works when it's cloudy and raining, and when you really need it........

Actually my flats panel packed up last night, so I took a chance on doing daytime flats with a black bag wrapped around the camera and EFW.  Seems to have worked thank goodness.

Carole